Post by JovaLL in Aric's Expansion Rebred

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I am trying to install the mod and am not sure what I am doing wrong. After putting all of the files in the right places in appdata once i open the game to activate the mod it doesn't show in the menu.

I am trying to install it on a fresh download of the game and don't have a save file of the unmodded game I want to backup which is the only thing from FurturPlanets guide that I didn't do.

ankmairdor3 years ago

There are 3 reasons that come to mind why Aric's mod would not be listed in the mod menu.

The game was not restarted after the mod was put in Strive's "mods" folder.
Aric's mod is not in the correct folder, this can happen if you make a mistake when copying. If you see a lot of things listed as mods that are not actually mods, then you copied the contents which were too deep into the mod. This problem can also happen if you have changed the in-game path to the mod folder. There is currently a bug that can cause the path to be messed up if you select this path (even if it is the same path as before), and the only way to reset to "user://mods/" is to delete the "progressfile" from appdata.
The game crashed upon starting, so the mod system is not setup properly and did not create a list for existing mod files. There are many potential causes so I would need to know what the error messages were to make a diagnosis. For Windows OS, the game opens with 2 windows: the game and a terminal that can give feedback about the game, including error messages.

The best way to fix Strive problems fast is the Strive Discord (https://itch.io/t/284398/discord).

JovaLL3 years ago (1 edit)

1 I did restart it a few times

2 I will redo the installation and test that

3 The game did not do anything weird that I could see, and the console said nothing except that it remade the backup folder the video tells you to delete or rename

Edit: I redid the whole thing for the fourth time and it just started working, thanks for the help!